Natural Geography
heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Name
        
        
            Natural Geography
        
    
            Program code
        
        
            20994
        
    
            Qualification awarded
        
        
            Bachelor
        
    
            Length of programme
        
        
4 years        
    
            Number of credits
        
        
            240
        
    
            level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework 
        
        
            6
        
    
            Qualification level
        
        
            First (Bachelor)                                  
        
    
            Discipline
        
        
            Natural sciences
        
    
            Speciality
        
        
KnowledgeField EN        
    
            Specific admission requirements
        
        
Complete general secondary education
        
    
            Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning
        
        
            
Diploma of secondary education
        
    
            Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements
        
        
            On the basis of professional mastery of competencies provided by the block of disciplines of professional orientation (minimum required criteria: the level of mastery of the block of disciplines of professional orientation with grades not less than 75 points, grade for internship in the specialty not less than 75 points, receiving a score of not less than 75 points for the complex qualification exam; as well as the defense of qualifying work with a score of at least 75 points)
        
    
            Programme learning outcomes
        
        
            P01. Know, understand and be able to use in practice the basic concepts of the theory of geography and worldviews.
P02. Know and understand the main types of geographical activities, their division.
P03. Explain the features of the organization of geographical space.
P04. Analyze the geographical potential of the territory
P05. Collect, process and analyze information in the field of geographical sciences.
P06. Use information technology, cartographic and geoinformation models in the field of geographical sciences.
P07. Determine the main characteristics, processes, history and composition of the landscape shell and its components.
P08. Apply models, methods of physics, chemistry, geology, ecology, mathematics, information technology, etc. in the study of natural and social processes of formation and development of geospheres.
P09. Analyze the composition and structure of natural and sociospheres (in accordance with the professional direction) on different spatial and temporal scales.
P10. Know the goals of sustainable development and the opportunities of their professional field to achieve them, including in Ukraine.
P11. Adhere to the moral and ethical aspects of research, honesty, professional code of behavior.
P12. Understand the processes of planning, organizing and conducting geotourism trips and be able to communicate productively with consumers of geotourism services.
P13. Know and be able to use field and laboratory research methods to analyze the morphology, genesis, age and dynamics of the terrain, as well as to assess the geotourism potential of the area.
P14. Know the processes of planning, organizing and conducting environmental activities.
P15. Analyze the natural resource and economic potential of the territory to meet the needs of environmental measures.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
Full-time form        
    
            Examination regulations and grading scale
        
        
            Written and oral exams, tests, current control (surveys, presentations, tests, modular tests), differentiated tests, defense of practice reports, defense of term papers, defense of bachelor's thesis.
        
    
            Оbligatory or optional mobility windows (if applicable)
        
        
            Work placement
        
        
            1.Complex discipline. Educational practice based on field natural-geographical research. 2. Training practice on methods of acquiring geographical information. 3. Training practice on methods of processing geographical information. 4. Educational Professionally Orientated Field Practice. 5. Training practice on methods of dissemination of geographical information. 6. Internship
        
    
            Work-based learning
        
        
            Student-centered problem-oriented learning, which is conducted in the form of lectures, seminars, practical classes, coursework, independent work based on textbooks, textbooks and abstracts, consultations with teachers, teaching and production practices, bachelor's degree work in the last year teaching.
        
    
                    Director of the course
                
                 
                
                        Volodymyr 
                        Vasyliovych
                        Stetsiuk 
                    
                    
                        Department of Earth Science and Geomorphology 
heohrafichnyi fakultet
                heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Occupational profiles of graduates
        
        
            Working places in design-research and science-research organizations, production and research institutions in the field of nature management and nature protection (among others: the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, institutions and organizations dealing with emergencies and environmental safety, protected areas, State Geological Survey of Ukraine, non-governmental environmental organizations), excursion and tourism companies.
        
    
            Access to further studies
        
        
            It is possible to continue education after the second (master's) level of higher education, as well as promotion qualifications and additional postgraduate education.
        
    Subjects
As part of the curriculum, students study the following disciplines
                        Foreign language for geographers
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 01,
                        
                    
                
                        Higher mathematics with the basics of statistics and probability theory
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 02	,
                        
                    
                
                        Chemistry and the basics of geochemistry
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 03,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of general geology 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 04	,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of meteorology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 05	,
                        
                    
                
                        Code: ,
                        
                    
                
                        Cartography with the basics of topography
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 12	,
                        
                    
                
                        Introduction  to university  studies
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 07,
                        
                    
                
                        Physics and the basics of geophysics
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 06,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of hydrology and oceanology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 09,
                        
                    
                
                        Soil science with the basics of soil geography
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 10,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of biogeography
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 11,
                        
                    
                
                        Training practice on methods of acquiring geographical information
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 15	,
                        
                    
                
                        Geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 14	,
                        
                    
                
                        The bases of geoecology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 16	,
                        
                    
                
                        Physical geography of continents and Oceans
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 17	,
                        
                    
                
                        Bases of GIS
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 28	,
                        
                    
                
                        Paleoecology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 29	,
                        
                    
                
                        Landscape science	
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 18,
                        
                    
                
                        Economic and social geography of the world
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 19	,
                        
                    
                
                        Ukrainian culture and foreign culture
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 20,
                        
                    
                
                        Training practice on methods of processing geographical information
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 21,
                        
                    
                
                        Educational professionally orientated field Practice 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 22,
                        
                    
                
                        GIS in Natural Geography
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 30	,
                        
                    
                
                        Structure and management of geodata blocks
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 31,
                        
                    
                
                        Historical landscape science
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 32,
                        
                    
                
                        Global environmental problems
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 33,
                        
                    
                
                        Geoecological problems of Europe
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 34,
                        
                    
                
                        Selected sections of labour law and bases of business
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 23,
                        
                    
                
                        Socio-political studies
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 24,
                        
                    
                
                        Training practice on methods of dissemination of geographical information
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 25,
                        
                    
                
                        Internship
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 26,
                        
                    
                
                        Remote sensing of the Earth
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 35,
                        
                    
                
                        Dynamic geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 36,
                        
                    
                
                        Philosophy
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 27	,
                        
                    
                
                        Relief and Geological Structure of Ukraine 
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 37	,
                        
                    
                
                        Soils of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 38	,
                        
                    
                
                        Climate of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 39,
                        
                    
                
                        Surface Waters of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 40,
                        
                    
                
                        Biogeography of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 41,
                        
                    
                
                        Code: ,
                        
                    
                
                        Qualifying undergraduate coursework for professional direction
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 44,
                        
                    
                
                        Natural-Geographical Modelling
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 42	,
                        
                    
                
                        Landscapes of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 43,
                        
                    
                
                        History of geographical discoveries
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК8,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of historical geology
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 13,
                        
                    
                
                        Complex discipline. Educational practice on the basics of natural and geographical field research
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК 14,
                        
                    
                
                        Geopositioning and landscape photography
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.01.01,
                        
                    
                
                        Methods of landscape research
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.02,
                        
                    
                
                        Geoecological problems of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.02.01,
                        
                    
                
                        Perceptual geography
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.01,
                        
                    
                
                        Global environmental problems
                    
                    
                        Code: ОК15,
                        
                    
                
                        Protected business
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.03,
                        
                    
                
                        Lithological and petrographic basis of the relief
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.05,
                        
                    
                
                        Methods of spatio-temporal analysis
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.04,
                        
                    
                
                        Ecological standards and environmental quality criteria
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.03.03,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of planning nature conservation areas
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.07,
                        
                    
                
                        Basics of planning nature conservation areas
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.13,
                        
                    
                
                        Environmental legislation of Ukraine
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.06,
                        
                    
                
                        Structural geomorphology
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.08,
                        
                    
                
                        Stone in architecture and art
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.04.01,
                        
                    
                
                        Environmental management
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 3.05.01	,
                        
                    
                
                        Geospatial analysis
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.09,
                        
                    
                
                        Комп'ютерні методи в плануванні та дизайні ландшафту
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.12,
                        
                    
                
                        International landscape planning experience
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.10,
                        
                    
                
                        Planning eco-networks
                    
                    
                        Code: ВБ 2.11,